Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people who work with those struggling to find somewhere to live put part of the blame for homelessness on the right to buy scheme . |
| 2 | While training for preaching has happily improved since the Council , other factors have sadly hampered and slowed down the work of theological re-education . |
| 3 | It manages tasks by setting deadlines for their completion , instead of using interrupts simply to start them going . |
| 4 | In the UK , franchising has always played a significant role , although relations between franchisor and franchisee have not always been smooth , according to the report . |
| 5 | Consumption in leisure and holidaying became increasingly linked to the capacity of the individual consumer to make choices within the market . |
| 6 | If relearning to walk safely takes several months , going out in a wheelchair alone can prevent the patient from feeling too housebound and frustratingly dependent on other people for his mobility . |
| 7 | Andrée without appearing to do so took charge of the evening . |
| 8 | Most walkers would probably agree that the Langdale Pikes are Lakeland 's finest miniature hills — shapely and aloof , especially Pike o'Stickle ( 709m ) , and certainly there are enough quality approach walks and challenging scrambles here to satisfy the most discerning of mountain walkers . |
| 9 | Learning diaries are being used increasingly by such bodies as the Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) and by professional bodies such as HCIMA who are seeking to credit prior learning in support of such matters as |
| 10 | How can Darby O'Gill be dismissed as superstitious nonsense when it is part descriptive of a society where even now devotional queues are forming to watch supposedly moving statues . |
| 11 | The appointment of new and conservative judges in the later 1980s was seen as posing a threat to the basic rights enunciated in Roe , yet in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services ( 1989 ) and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey ( 1992 ) the court condoned further restrictions being placed by the states on the circumstances under which women could obtain abortions , while refusing to decide directly to reverse the principles in Roe . |
| 12 | Whereas previously people wanting to travel abroad had had to overcome a range of bureaucratic and political obstacles , the new regulations only required citizens to present their passports . |
| 13 | Areas looking to gain also include the Borders , and Dumfries and Galloway , but Grampian 's case is strengthened by the commission 's decision to widen the definition of Objective 5b to deal with areas hit by fishing industry decline . |
| 14 | A modular structure would also have the advantage of helping to avoid too rarefied an approach . |
| 15 | Those involved with ACET are now helping provide home care for one in four of all those dying with AIDS in the UK and up to 4,000 school pupils a month are now receiving education on the subject . |
| 16 | I 'm going to sacrifice maybe holidays this year , and maybe have a couple of long weekend breaks , as long as I earn enough to keep my head above water and to pay my way in life for the next twelve months , keep my family fed and watered I 'm Okay , then I 'm going to take stock in twelve months ' time . |
| 17 | Are you coming Christopher or are you going to sit here to have your meal ? |
| 18 | ‘ Well … are we just going to sit here waiting … or what ? ’ |
| 19 | For a moment I thought he was going to stand there facing it , daring it to stop . |
| 20 | ‘ Are you going to stand there gossiping all day ? ’ demanded Mrs Rogers peevishly . |
| 21 | Are you going to stand there gossiping all day while I die of neglect here ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ So am I going to be rewarded with an explanation , ’ he growled , ‘ or are you just going to stand there sipping that damn punch all evening ? ’ |
| 23 | But it 's the working with them , you know , you 've got to try and work with them , he 's got to go round may be every five minutes and make sure they 've put it out , otherwise he 's going to stand there doing his university work . |
| 24 | staying longer and she 's going to come here to tell well you know the reality ! |
| 25 | With the help of the European Commission Pilot Project : Community Languages in the Secondary Curriculum , we therefore conducted a second survey amongst a sample of LEA coordinators of community language provision in order to discover how they were attempting to meet locally perceived needs : thirteen replies were received . |
| 26 | To feel , as you said ‘ I 'm going to split right open ’ |
| 27 | But damn it it was so wicked , remember the flash geezer from the seventies , yeah , they 're going right just down the road , they 're all going I do n't like him and he 's going look just let me do it my way and you do it yours right |
| 28 | Yes , we are the Tourist Boards , the National Tourist Boards which include Scotland and Ireland ( northern Ireland ) and Wales have combined together , and we are going to combine together to produce a high profile advertising and marketing campaign to encourage millions of holidaymakers to make nineteen ninety one the summer to explore Britain erm and in a concentrated peak period from the twenty third of March to the twenty eighth of April over eighty five per cent of the U K's adult population will be continuously exposed to the message ‘ Britain 's Great ’ , and I think they will hear it on radio , they will see it on T V , there will large colour supplements and four page advertisements in every popular national newspaper from the Sunday Times to the Sun . |
| 29 | She drew in a short quick breath , hating what she was going to do yet knowing that it was unavoidable in her quest for the truth . |
| 30 | Guys pointing guns , it 's a stupid picture but that 's what they 're going to publish so do n't take it . ’ |